Current Exhibit - photography, etching, lithography, drawing

All images can be produced in the small, medium and large sizes represented in this exhibit.

ARTIST STATEMENT

WORLDS

It is still the simple resting of the eyes on a picture that I enjoy. I keep replicating the experience. Each is a world unto itself, a kind of refuge. These fisheye images seem to hover like worlds in the void of space, evoking some of the wonder that astronauts express while gazing back on earth, and that I dreamt about during my second year in college prior to embarking on a more serious and lifelong practice of making pictures.

In that dream, I am in the midst of a somewhat frantic but ambiguous search thru the catacombs of ancient churches. I emerge, tired and discouraged, from the great doorway of a cathedral. Looking out into the Parisian night, I see a procession led by the eminent psychologist Carl Jung. I promptly send my question telepathically to the old man, who stops, takes it in, and points to the sky.

What I see when I look up is an orb/circle hovering in the night sky, and within this circle a clear luminous image. As my eyes meet this static, enclosed, irrefutable image, I feel the restlessness evaporate, replaced by wonder and ease.

In both Jungian psychology and Buddhist art, the circle is seen as a symbol of the universe/self. I do see these Worlds in that light, as objects of wordless attention, as refuge for my restless spirit. They have also become a casual journal of my wanderings upon our world.

L. Looking, handmade 6-color collotype book Dallas Museum of Art, Architecture and Its Image, 1990 Canadian Center for Architecture Inaugural, 1989 Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, 1983: The Great East River Bridge

AWARDS

AWARDS
Princeton University Atelier Program, visiting artist, 2007, with Accra Shepp
Museum of Computer Art (MOCA), July 2001, best in show (online review by Don Archer of
Digital Printmaking Now at the Brooklyn Museum of Art)
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Survey Grant in Photography, 1983
Creative Artists Program Services (CAPS) (later NYFA) grant, 1981
Hudson River Museum Annual, 1979

Selected collections

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
The United States Library of Congress
Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Canadian Center For Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Goldman Sachs, Inc., New York
Pfizer, Inc., New York
The Hoboken Historical Museum

online review of Digital Printmaking Now exhibit at Brooklyn Museum, 2001
The Record, June 20, 2003, A Warehouse of Diverse Art
The Jersey Journal, Jan. 2001, Cat’s-eye View of Art Studios
The New York Times, Vivien Raynor, July 7, 1996, A Print Show By 12 Workshop Members
The Union Daily (Taipei, Taiwan, in chinese), Jan.1995, Printing and Light Come Together
describing exhibition and lecture given at Pan Pan Artspace. (article in Chinese)
The Jersey Journal, May, 1992, Cannibalism describing group show of that name
Canadian Center for Architecture, MIT Press, 1989, Architecture and its Image museum catalog
The Village Voice, Oct. 2, 1984, Lower Manhattan
Sy Rubin, ed., The Henry Street Settlement, New York, 1981, The Lower East Side
Artforum Magazine, Sept., 1981, Ed Fausty, Brian Rose
The New York Times, May 8, 1981, The Lower East Side: A Contemporary Portrait in Photographs